Infoseek Names Genette Davis Ad Sales Manager for Los Angeles; Skilled Advertising Professional to Manage New L.A. Office.SANTA CLARA Santa Clara, city, Cuba Santa Clara (sän`tä klä`rä), city (1994 est. pop. 217,000), capital of Villa Clara prov., central Cuba. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 9, 1996--Infoseek Corp., provider of the award-winning Internet navigation service, announced today that Genette Davis has been appointed Advertising Sales Manager sales manager n → gerente m/f de ventas sales manager n → directeur commercial sales manager sale n → for the newly-formed Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. office. A 10-year advertising veteran, Davis will apply her extensive advertising sales experience in agencies and publishing, most recently with Entertainment Weekly, to manage and grow the company's on-line advertising accounts in this entertainment-oriented market. "We are pleased that Genette Davis has joined our growing team in the midst Adv. 1. in the midst - the middle or central part or point; "in the midst of the forest"; "could he walk out in the midst of his piece?" midmost of an explosion in on-line advertising," said Karl Spangenberg, Infoseek's vice president of World Wide Advertising Sales. "Her experience at Time Warner makes her the ideal candidate to help meet our clients' expanding advertising demands." Davis will report to Richard Ward, director of advertising, West Coast. Davis spent the last six years in the advertising department at Time Warner's Entertainment Weekly magazine, where she was promoted to Los Angeles manager from account sales representative in April 1994. While there, she established more than 40 new accounts and grew the publication's Los Angeles net advertising billings to more than $10 million. Previously, Davis was an account executive in the advertising department of USA Weekend, where she generated new business accounts in the Los Angeles, Las Vegas and San Diego markets. Before that, she was a senior media planner at Foote, Cone & Belding's Los Angeles office. Davis holds a Bachelors degree in Communications from the University of California, Santa Barbara History The predecessor to UCSB, Santa Barbara State College, focused on teacher training, industrial arts, home economics, and foreign languages. Intense lobbying by an interest group in the City of Santa Barbara led by Thomas Storke and Pearl Chase persuaded the State . Infoseek Corporation, located in Santa Clara, Calif., is a leader in Internet navigation. Infoseek ranked as the number one Internet site in advertising revenues by Webtrack. Infoseek search services have won a number of industry awards, including: "Number One Rated Search Engine" (PC Computing, Sept. 1995), "Best of the Test" (Internet World, May 1996), "MVP (Multimedia Video Processor) A high-speed DSP chip from Texas Instruments, introduced in 1994. Officially introduced as the TMS320C80, it combines RISC technology with the functionality of four DSPs on one chip. : Internet Tools" (PC Computing, Dec. 1995) and "Top 100: Editor's Choice" (Home PC). For more information, visit Infoseek's Web site at http://www.infoseek.com. CONTACT: Edelman Public Relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most Kate Reeder/Marivi Lerdo, 415/968-4033 |
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